Take the last frame to Clarksville … for the first time in over three decades, film has returned to the corner of Franklin and First! Sponsored by Planters Bank, with additional support provided by the Clarksville-Montgomery County Arts & Heritage Development Council, this film series features vintage flicks and modern classics, presented on Sunday afternoons in our 169-seat auditorium.

Admission is $5 (cash or check only). Tickets for each film go on sale one week prior to the showing and are available at the box office between 9:00am and 2:00pm, Monday through Friday. Any remaining tickets are available at the door one hour prior to showtime. Popcorn, assorted candy and bottled water are available as concessions.

Ghostbusters

 

After the members of a team of scientists (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis) lose their cushy positions at a university in New York City, they decide to become “ghostbusters” to wage a high-tech battle with the supernatural for money. After stumbling upon a gateway to another dimension, a doorway that will release evil upon the city, the Ghostbusters must now save New York from complete destruction.

2pm October 7

 

Rating: PG

Running time: 107 minutes

Release year: 1984

Director: Ivan Reitman

Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson

North by Northwest

 

The master of suspense weaves his greatest tale! An ad exec, played by Cary Grant, pursues — and is pursued by — foreign spies, from New York to the top of Mount Rushmore in this monumental Hitchcock classic highlighted by the famed crop-duster sequence.

2pm October 14

 

Rating: NR

Running time: 136 minutes

Release year: 1959

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis

Frankenweenie

 

Young Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) is a science nerd and outsider at school, but he does have one good friend: his dog, Sparky. But then tragedy strikes, and Sparky shuffles off this mortal coil. Victor is heartbroken, but his science teacher (Martin Landau) gives him an idea of how to jolt old Sparky back to life. The experiment is successful, and all goes well, until Victor’s fellow students steal his secret and use it to resurrect other dead animals — with monstrous consequences.

2pm October 21

 

Rating: PG

Running time: 90 minutes

Release year: 2012

Director: Tim Burton

Cast: Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Martin Landau, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short

Hotel Transylvania

 

When monsters want to get away from it all, they go to Count Dracula’s Hotel Transylvania, a lavish resort where they can be themselves without humans around to bother them. On one special weekend, Dracula (played by Adam Sandler) invites creatures like the Invisible Man, the Mummy and others to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez). However, an unforeseen complication unfolds when an ordinary human unwittingly crashes the party and falls in love with Mavis.

2pm October 28

 

Rating: PG

Running time: 91 minutes

Release year: 2012

Director: Genndy Tartakovsky

Cast: Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, Fran Drescher

Pretty Woman

 

While on a business trip in Los Angeles, corporate raider Edward (Richard Gere) picks up a prostitute, Vivian (Julia Roberts), on a lark. After Edward hires Vivian to stay with him for the weekend, the two get closer, only to discover there are significant hurdles to overcome as they try to bridge the gap between their very different worlds.

2pm November 18

 

Rating: R

Running time: 117 minutes

Release year: 1990

Director: Garry Marshall

Cast: Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Hector Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy, Jason Alexander

Babes in Toyland

 

Mary Contrary (Annette Funicello) is set to marry Tom Piper (Tommy Sands) when he is kidnapped by two goons working for the evil Barnaby (Ray Bolger), who wants to marry Mary for her inheritance. Instead of killing Tom as instructed, the pair sell him to Gypsies, which allows Tom to rescue Mary. Soon afterward, Tom and Mary encounter the odd Toymaker (Ed Wynn), who becomes a pawn in Barnaby’s new scheme.

2pm November 25

 

Rating: G

Running time: 106 minutes

Release year: 1961

Director: Jack Donohue

Cast: Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Ed Wynn, Henry Calvin

The Polar Express

 

A doubting 8-year-old boy is whisked to the North Pole on a magical train for a meeting with Santa. Meanwhile, the train’s conductor, along with the other young passengers, help turn the boy’s crisis in faith into a wondrous journey of self-discovery.

2pm December 2

 

Rating: G

Running time: 100 minutes

Release year: 2004

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Cast: Tom Hanks, Nona Gaye, Peter Scolari, Leslie Zemeckis, Michael Jeter

Disney’s A Christmas Carol

 

Jim Carrey stars as Ebenezer Scrooge (and also plays the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future) in this adaptation of Dickens’ classic holiday tale about the value of generosity and the true meaning of Christmas.

6pm December 9

 

Rating: PG

Running time: 96 minutes

Release year: 2009

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Cast: Jim Carrey, Bob Hoskins, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Leslie Zemeckis

It’s a Wonderful Life

 

In Frank Capra’s classic holiday comedy/drama, an angel (Henry Travers) helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman, George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart), by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

2pm December 16

 

Rating: PG

Running time: 129 minutes

Release year: 1946

Director: Frank Capra